Racial Harassment,Ethnic Concentration,and Economic Conditions* |
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Authors: | Christian Dustmann Francesca Fabbri Ian Preston |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics and Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London, London WC1H 0AX, UKc.dustmann@ucl.ac.uk;2. Department of Economics, University of Munich, DE‐80539 Munich, Germany;3. and CReAMf.fabbri@lmu.de;4. Department of Economics and CReAM, University College London, London WC1H 0AX, UKi.preston@ucl.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we analyse the association between the spatial concentration of ethnic minorities and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in the attitudes of majority individuals that finds expression in harassment behaviour, the probability that minority individuals meet majority individuals, and the cost of expressing hostility aggressively. Thus, harassment cannot simply be modelled as a stronger form of hostility. Using unique data for Britain, we show that, in areas of higher local ethnic concentration, experience of harassment is lower, even though hostility on the side of the majority population is not. |
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Keywords: | Economics of minorities inter‐racial relations J15 R23 |
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